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Blog: Why IMPEACH? + The 35 Articles of impeachment + What YOU can do !  



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There is no argument that is the least bit logical to support not impeaching.

If you have read even a small portion of those Articles of Impeachment (and those do not list nearly all the reasons to impeach), you will see the extreme danger we are in. Let us not forget that precedence is being set and the next President could do much worse and then the next could get even worse.

We have laws. We have to keep our employees (the President is our employee NOT our ruler, king or emperor) from breaking the law, damaging our Constitution or breaking international treaties, all of which Bush and several others in our government have and are doing.

The argument that with Bush impeached, we will end up with Cheney in office means nothing. First, we already also have articles of impeachment that have been introduced against Cheney, and second, the congress and our military would be much less apt to follow illegal orders from Cheney to attack Iran if we are in the middle of impeaching Bush.

As for the time it will take to impeach Bush....it could take one day, we have enough evidence on video tape of him clearly admitting he has broken the law.
All 16 of our spy agencies say we are more at risk now that we are occupying Iraq than we were before. The world hates and mistrusts us. It is time to show the American people, the world and future Presidents and government officials that we do care about the law and human life and we will not tolerate this any longer.

Call, email, write, fax and visit your representative, John Conyers and others to DEMAND we impeach. It is their sworn duty and they have no rights whatsoever to say we do not have time or that it is off the table. There is still plenty of time for other countries to be illegally invaded, there is still plenty of time for us to see even more destruction to our tattered Constitution and Bill of Rights, so there is obviously plenty of time to impeach.

The only guarantee we have is that if we DON'T push as hard as we can that we will not succeed.

We have a responsibility to ourselves, our children, the world, all the people that sacrificed to build and protect and preserve our system of government that is supposed to be "of, by and for the people" to do everything we can to save what is left and repair as much of the damage as we can and at the same time make sure this NEVER happens again.

Impeachment is the only thing that can do that.

Ignoring it will not make it go away, and ignoring it makes us all complicit.

Let us not be silent.

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Co sponsors as of 06/23/2008
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 6/18/2008
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 6/18/2008
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/11/2008
Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 6/11/2008
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 6/11/2008
Check updates on who has co sponsored:
Go to: http://www.thomas.gov/ and put H Res 1258 in the box and chose "bill number" and click on it, then choose "Bill summary and Status File"

The Judiciary Committee:
Send a free online fax:
The Congress:
The Senate:
http://senate.gov/

The media:
 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=6
Look under "Activism Resources"

The 35 articles listed below are not clickable, you need to go to: http://www.thomas.gov/ and put H Res 1258 in the box and chose "bill number" and click on it,

H.RES.1258

Resolved, That President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate: (Introduced in House)
Beginning
June 10, 2008
June 11, 2008
Article I--Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign To Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq
Article V--Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression
Article VI--Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of H.J. Res. 114
Article VII--Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War
Article VIII--Invading Iraq, a Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the U.N. Charter and International Criminal Law
Article IX--Failing To Provide Troops with Body Armor and Vehicle Armor
Article X--Falsifying Accounts of U.S. Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes
Article XI--Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq
Article XII--Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources
Article XIII--Creating a Secret Task Force To Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries
Article XV--Providing Immunity From Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq
Article XVI--Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq Contractors
Article XVII--Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely and Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives
Article XX--Imprisoning Children
Article XXII--Creating Secret Laws
Article XXIII--Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Article XXIV--Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment
Article XXVI--Announcing the Intent To Violate Laws With Signing Statements, and Violating Those Laws
Article XXVII--Failing To Comply With Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not To Comply
Article XXVIII--Tampering With Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
Article XXIX--Conspiracy To Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Article XXX--Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt To Destroy Medicare
Article XXXI--Katrina: Failure To Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure To Respond to a Civil Emergency
Article XXXIV--Obstruction of Investigation Into the Attacks of September 11, 2001
Article XXXV--Endangering the Health of 9/11 First Responders


Co sponsors as of 06/23/2008
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 6/18/2008
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 6/18/2008
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/11/2008
Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 6/11/2008
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 6/11/2008
Check updates on who has co sponsored:
Go to: and put H Res 1258 in the box and chose "bill number" and click on it, then choose "Bill summary and Status File"

The Judiciary Committee:
Send a free online fax:
The Congress:
The Senate:
http://senate.gov/

The media:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=6
Look under "Activism Resources"

There is no argument that is the least bit logical to support not impeaching.

If you have read even a small portion of those Articles of Impeachment (and those do not list nearly all the reasons to impeach), you will see the extreme danger we are in. Let us not forget that precedence is being set and the next President could do much worse and then the next could get even worse.

We have laws. We have to keep our employees (the President is our employee NOT our ruler, king or emperor) from breaking the law, damaging our Constitution or breaking international treaties, all of which Bush and several others in our government have and are doing.

The argument that with Bush impeached, we will end up with Cheney in office means nothing. First, we already also have articles of impeachment that have been introduced against Cheney, and second, the congress and our military would be much less apt to follow illegal orders from Cheney to attack Iran if we are in the middle of impeaching Bush.

As for the time it will take to impeach Bush....it could take one day, we have enough evidence on video tape of him clearly admitting he has broken the law.
All 16 of our spy agencies say we are more at risk now that we are occupying Iraq than we were before. The world hates and mistrusts us. It is time to show the American people, the world and future Presidents and government officials that we do care about the law and human life and we will not tolerate this any longer.

Call, email, write, fax and visit your representative, John Conyers and others to DEMAND we impeach. It is their sworn duty and they have no rights whatsoever to say we do not have time or that it is off the table. There is still plenty of time for other countries to be illegally invaded, there is still plenty of time for us to see even more destruction to our tattered Constitution and Bill of Rights, so there is obviously plenty of time to impeach.

The only guarantee we have is that if we DON'T push as hard as we can that we will not succeed.

We have a responsibility to ourselves, our children, the world, all the people that sacrificed to build and protect and preserve our system of government that is supposed to be "of, by and for the people" to do everything we can to save what is left and repair as much of the damage as we can and at the same time make sure this NEVER happens again.

Impeachment is the only thing that can do that.

Ignoring it will not make it go away, and ignoring it makes us all complicit.

Let us not be silent.

.

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